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Thursday, 3 July 2014

Prah (sounds weird talking about myself in the third person) and Constantine held a contest on Facebook
to help us choose the book we’d read for this month. All an author had to do
was leave their blurb and buy link information. We did the rest. It was a tough
decision. Bloodgifted won.

What’s a girl to do when she learns she’s
descended from a vampire? Being unable to age is only the beginning…

Laura Dantonville is a Primary school teacher
with one wish—to marry her boyfriend, Detective Matt Sommers. When her aunt
Judy reveals a frightening family secret that explains her rare genetic
mutation, it threatens to propel her into a dark underworld where her true
family waits.Laura’s future with Matt hangs in the balance.

Alec Munro never wanted to become guardian to a
Dantonville regardless that her blood is coveted by his vampire-kind. But his
sire, Lucien Lebrettan, gave him no choice. Now he’s faced with not only
protecting the girl, but fathering a child with her in order to end his
servitude—and a centuries-old curse.

… which some among his kind will do anything to
prevent.

My Review

Vampires are in my self-proclaimed category
of “horribly cool,” especially when they are more humanistic in
nature than evil. Ms. Lacoba has done a fabulous job of portraying the goodness
and earnestness of vampires. Of course she made sure the reader saw just how
evil they could be, too.

The love story between Laura and Alec turned
out to be highly enjoyable. Resistance and tension between the two evolved into
acceptance and love. Their passion took on a life of its own.

One thing I didn’t appreciate was some of the
repetition in the novel. It was written in the first person from both the hero
and heroine’s perspective, so we got deep into the POV, but it also caused a
duplication of the beginning of a few scenes.

Whether you're a vampire story newbie, like
me, or you devour them as your genre, you'll enjoy this book.